 There's a guy, let's call him Matt. Matt makes his millions working in the timber industry, but while most companies are operating by the book, Matt's companies and networks have been logging illegally on a massive scale. But it's easily covered up as Matt's empire of companies control the whole supply chain. On top of that, they're paying little or no taxes at all. They use offshore bank accounts and make false declarations about the value of timber for stockpiles, destroying natural habitats, and driving species to extinction. There are many criminals like Matt, but Interpol is on their case. Interpol's environmental security program works with police forces and agencies in member countries to help them prevent, detect and disrupt forestry crimes, dismantling the criminal groups behind them. We run intelligence-led global operations to stop illegal deforestation, name checks on our databases, often link the same names to other organized crimes such as money laundering, tax evasion, document fraud, drug trafficking, and sometimes even human trafficking. We are fighting for cases of large-scale forestry crime to be treated as corporate fraud. Forestry crime is the most lucrative of all environmental crimes. It's worth up to US$152 billion every year. It's exploiting a resource that's vital for our survival in future generations. Environmental crime is a crime that impacts on all of us. That's why Interpol is so invested in fighting it. Interpol, linking forces of nature.